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This album is one of those albums that grow into you with the passing of time. This is how it happened to me.
I feel that this album is her "meditation" album (she had GUILTY in which she analyzed herself but that was too angry so I could not call it meditation, and also Party Queen but there she's in the middle of the whole situation and her emotions are everywhere so there's not really a balance). Instead, in LOVE again, she has a more calm and mature point of view.
I do not mess up things mixing the whole Maro situation, as I don't really feel this album as a Love album. I gave the album a different meaning.
If the Party queen tries to survive with herself (ayu doesn't give us a conclusion that she's healed; all the songs from Party Queen are in fact her own questions, doubts, upsets, dispair, solitude - she is aware of her situation, she's making efforts to forget, to encourage herself and she manages to survive. BUT she's not healed. I don't find HBYA a healing song, but just a encouraging song to go on) the girl/boy from LOVE again is way more determined, metamorphosing into a new human being, transceding into a new chapter.
I relate to MY STORY when thinking about LOVE again. The meaning is the same. It's like MY STORY is the rebellious brother of LOVE again:
*MY STORY - the girl is aware of the fact that the things that worked for her in the past are not valid anymore and instead of continuing to lie to herself she blooms into a better version of herself. She then turns into an elegant, rafined lady ( (miss)understood, Secret)
*LOVE again - same but here she is not the fiery MY STORY ayu anymore . The accent is put on the meditation : a more calmer, mature ayu with an ethereal feel.
I'll return with a track-by-track opinion.
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